Artist's Book Yearbook 2003-2005 - Book Arts - University of the ...

I imagine that the carved and graffitied
wooden desks are probably beautiful objects in
themselves, and that a gallery installation of
them would be quite a different statement
about school days than this book.
The Table Leaked It’s Object Tertia Longmire, 1998
Longmire’s title: The Table Leaks its Object locates
the writing itself as presence or object, away
from the physical desk. “Stop reading the table.
I was here but now I disappear. Stacy S. loves
Martin S. Rushna 4 Rohim Mohammed has a
buckhead Oasis Bitch Beware maths exam is
hard....” There is little nostalgia here.
From Kandinsky’s
Drypoint
Ti Parks, 1997
From Kandinsky’s Drypoint 1997 by Ti Parks, is
the expanded reformation of a two
dimensional image across the sequence of
twenty-four pages. Short lines in isolated
groupings are transcribed from a drypoint by
Kandinsky, as the title and colophon inform us.
As with Longmire’s abandoned school desks,
the reader must imagine or search out the
original which gave impetus this sequence, it
is not shown here. Lines are drawn with pencil
and the pages are bound by hand in a limited
edition of ten.
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Ti Park’s books often utilise plain A4 paper
folded at the fore-edge, with the pierced holes
and binding cord of immaculately executed
stab bindings, functioning as tactile point and
line. This book can be handled like a flip book,
animating lines in time and space. The objectness
of this book is in contrast with its origins
as a two dimensional image.
From Kandinsky’s Drypoint Ti Parks, 1997
Reforming through an act of expansion shifts
to that of editing in Reality (1972) by Jaroslaw
Kozlowski. This is a reformed textual work
without the text, only its punctuation.
Dotted across each numbered page like
constellations on deep white space are
parentheses, semi-colons, quotation marks,
commas, and full stops.
Reality Jaroslaw Kozlowski, 1972